The video depicts a serviceman from Russia's 82nd Motor Rifle Regiment, wearing only underpants and appearing to have broken ribs, thrown into a pit. According to Daily Mail - Home, the commander described ordering the soldier to eat dirt and threatened to send him on a raid with a 'pancake', a mine that could explode and kill him. The soldier, believed to have run away before being caught, was ordered to express regret for seeking to flee the frontline in Ukraine. According to Daily Mail - Home, the soldier described feeling sick and said his ribs hurt, while the commander responded with further abuse. The exact location and date of the video remain unknown, as do the identities and current status of the soldier and commander involved.
This footage is part of a wave of videos on social media depicting Russian commanders torturing their soldiers, according to multiple reports. Other videos show commanders beating and electrocuting troops, denying them food, forcing them to crawl through mud, tying them naked to trees in sub-zero temperatures, and making them fight to the death. One video shows two naked men lying in a pit as their commander screams at them and fires bullets into the ground nearby, while another shows two men forced to crawl through mud while commanders kick dirt at them and strike them in the head.
Come on, you fucking shit, how are you feeling?
Russia operates a network of at least 23 detention sites where wounded soldiers and deserters are starved and tortured, often in abandoned buildings in Russian-occupied Ukraine, according to independent Russian journalist Anna Snegireva and ASTRA sources. Those who survive torture camps are sent back to the front, according to multiple reports. The command of the 5th and 110th brigades organized a 'concentration camp' for its own soldiers in the basements of the abandoned Petrovskaya coal mine, according to ASTRA sources. The full extent and operational details of this detention network are not fully documented.
A new investigation reveals the Russian military has employed torturing the friends and family of deserters to stem personnel losses, according to People of Baikal journalists. On November 2, 2025, masked men kidnapped and tortured Pavel with a stun gun to locate his cousin Pyotr, a deserter, according to Olga Vtorushina. Pyotr had been captured before while serving in Ukraine and was traded back in a POW exchange, then expected to return to combat. Masked men tracked down and tortured the father and friend of a 25-year-old contract soldier who deserted after a head injury, according to the soldier's mother. On August 19, 2025, military police officers tracked down, tased, broke the nose of, and abducted Viktor for failing to return to his unit on time, according to Viktor's mother. The specific evidence and verification process for these allegations require further scrutiny.
I feel sick.
Broader military conditions show injured soldiers on crutches being sent back to the frontline. Troops sheltering in Ukrainian dugouts film themselves surviving on stolen potatoes because their army has not supplied them with food. Commanders send their men into 'meat storm' battles, likened to suicide missions, and those who flee or refuse orders face brutal punishment.
According to a new CSIS database, Russia is conducting an escalating and violent campaign of sabotage and subversion against European and U.S. targets in Europe led by the GRU. Research from nine sources indicates the number of Russian attacks in Europe nearly tripled between 2023 and 2024, after quadrupling between 2022 and 2023. Russia's primary targets include transportation, government, critical infrastructure, and industry, with main weapons and tactics including explosives, blunt or edged instruments, and electronic attack.
Turn your face this way, shit. Come on, get on your knees, you shit!
The GRU and other Russian intelligence agencies frequently recruit local assets to plan and execute sabotage and subversion missions, according to research from nine sources. Other operations rely on Russia's 'shadow fleet' for undersea attacks. Roughly 27% of attacks are against transportation targets, 27% against government targets, 21% against critical infrastructure, and 21% against industry, with many targets having links to Western aid to Ukraine. The most common weapons and tactics involve explosives and incendiaries (35%), blunt or edged instruments (27%), electronic attack (15%), and weaponization of illegal immigrants (8%). The GRU and other organizations have conducted operations against U.S. targets, such as U.S. bases in Germany.
Western countries have not developed an effective strategy to counter Russian sabotage and subversion attacks, according to research from nine sources. This contradiction indicates differing assessments of Western preparedness, with some military aid and discussions suggesting potential effectiveness in responses, influencing reader perception of security and response efficacy in Europe. The effectiveness and outcomes of Western strategies remain uncertain.
Tell the lads' families and friends what you want to say.
Russian forces have perpetrated possible war crimes and crimes against humanity since their invasion of Ukraine, according to multiple reports. The UN has verified more than 14,655 civilian deaths as of 12 January 2026, with the real toll likely much higher. At least 2,514 people were killed and 12,142 injured in 2025, marking a 31% increase compared to 2024, according to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). Casualties from the use of short-range drones increased by 120% in 2025 compared to 2024, while long-range weapons accounted for 35% of civilian casualties. The HRMMU has documented widespread use of heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, unguided missiles, airstrikes, and illegal cluster munitions in populated areas.
Schools, homes, water and sanitation systems, energy-related infrastructure, and civilian shelters have been routinely targeted. The World Health Organization has verified over 2,828 attacks on healthcare since February 2022. The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has verified damage to at least 515 cultural and religious sites.
I'd like to apologise to their families...
In areas under their control, Russian forces have perpetrated rape and torture, and mass graves and burial sites have been found. Ukrainian and Russian forces have committed abuses against prisoners of war, including torture and ill-treatment, according to the HRMMU. The UN has documented violations against POWs by Russian-affiliated mercenary operatives from the now-dissolved Wagner Group, including enforced disappearances, ill-treatment, and extrajudicial executions.
An estimated 14,000 people were killed and millions displaced in Donbas between 2014-2022, and the ICC found evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to international monitors and the ICC. On June 30, Russian forces were driven from Snake Island, which they had occupied since early in the war. The Russian defense ministry characterized the retreat from Snake Island as 'a gesture of good will' toward Ukraine, while other sources imply aggressive Russian actions without such goodwill gestures, highlighting a discrepancy between Russia's official narrative and independent reports. Russian forces captured Lysychansk in the first week of July after weeks of indiscriminate bombardment, with the fall of Lysychansk and Syeverodonetsk giving Russia control of the last major population centers in Luhansk oblast. Russian attackers spent six months attempting assaults on Bakhmut without success.
What the fuck, apologise? Are you a fucking idiot, you fucking moron?
In late July, American-supplied HIMARS heavily damaged bridges around Russian-occupied Kherson. On August 9, a massive explosion at a Russian air base in Crimea destroyed as many as nine aircraft. Russia has claimed Ukrainian forces have attacked targets within its territory, including an oil depot in Belgorod, but Ukraine has not confirmed any strikes.
The Russian army has swelled since Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Months into the war, Russia conducted a 'partial mobilization' for several chaotic weeks, drafting as many as 300,000 additional personnel. Exactly three years later, the federal government passed legislation allowing the state to call up reservists to protect 'critical infrastructure' during special drills.
Eat the dirt, you bitch! Eat it, eat it, eat it, you fucking bitch. You dog, you bitch. 'Come on, come on. Since you're a dog, go on, have a walk, crawl around on all fours.
A Moscow-born gunman opened fire in Kyiv, killing at least six people and wounding fifteen, according to research from two sources. Russia closes off Arctic waters near NATO borders and designates them 'missile impact zones' until April 30. Influential Kremlin propagandist Victoria Bonya turns on Putin over Russia's economic crisis and warns the public are ready to 'snap', according to research from two sources. Putin's 'poison empire' is revealed, with thousands of scientists linked to secret laboratories accused of testing toxins on humans. Putin ramps up anti-drone defences at his secluded mansion in Valdai with 27 towers armed with anti-aircraft systems. Putin strolls into Easter Sunday service in Moscow after 'breaking Kremlin-declared ceasefire'.
End to Ukraine war may be close, Moscow and Kyiv agree, according to research from two sources. Chilling video shows how Ukrainian drone brigade killed 8,000 Russian troops in one month. Cat and dog 'are flown to safety by Ukrainian drone to save them from advancing Russian troops'. Russia unveils a battlefield robot armed with a rapid-fire mortar system capable of 'loading and firing rounds without any human input'.
My ribs hurt.
UK defence minister James Heappey stated it is 'not necessarily a problem' for Ukraine to use UK-supplied arms against military targets in Russia, and that Ukrainian military strikes to disrupt supply lines were a 'legitimate' part of war. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov claimed NATO is conducting a proxy war and Western weapons being delivered to Ukraine would be fair targets.
Fuck your ribs, for fuck's sake! Tomorrow you'll go on a raid with a pancake, you fucking bitch!
Lay there for a few more days until you understand how to follow orders.
It is 'not necessarily a problem' for Ukraine to use UK-supplied arms against military targets in Russia.
Ukrainian military strikes to disrupt supply lines were a 'legitimate' part of war.